Choirfest

While the snow may be falling outside and every county in middle TN is closed due to the snow, our daughter is happily boarding a bus and heading for the local state university to participate in Choirfest.

The music professor at the university invited all of the middle school choirs in our county to participate. They will spend the day singing as a collective unit, working on hand selected pieces of music just for this occasion. Later this afternoon, they will present a free concert, which will showcase all that they have learned.

She has been really excited about this opportunity for sometime now. In addition to having the chance to meet new people, they are all pretty jazzed about receiving the obligatory t-shirt and of course pizza for lunch ( it is all about the little things you know).

Anyway, I am heading off to work so that I can take off a little early today to see her perform. I will take my camera along, hopefully we will be permitted to take some photos or at the very least sneak a little video.

Downtown Christmas

I created a photo show, which contains some of the pictures I took today during the Downtown Christmas celebration, and our trip over Thanksgiving to view the Christmas lights on the Cumberland.

Christmas at the Courthouse

We have had a really busy day today. It started with our daughter performing in the winter recital for the Community School of the Arts. That was followed by a choral performance on the steps of our Courthouse. The intermediate and show choir of our daughter's school were invited to perform at the annual lighting of the Christmas tree ceremony. They performed three songs and were followed by the show choir, along with several other local schools. After their performance, we headed into the courthouse for a cup of hot chocolate and cookies. We hung around for the annual Christmas parade, which began on Main street and wound its way up and around downtown. We topped off the evening by joining friends at the Franklin Street Pub & Grill for dinner. The weather was cold and brisk but the company was warm, friendly and enjoyable. It was a great ending to a very exciting day!

Veterans Day Program

In years past our daughter has been an active member of the local university's community choir. However, with the transition into middle school and the addition of cheer leading full time, gymnastics twice a week, guitar lessons and not to mention homework she elected to drop that extra curricular activity.

She loves to sing and really missed being involved with the choir. So this year, she asked if she could choose the intermediate choir as her full time elective, to which we said yes. She felt that participating in her schools intermediate choir would provide her with a way to continue to sing as well as a positive way to represent the school.

On Wednesday, the intermediate choir along with the high school show choir participated in a school wide Veteran's Day program. It was the first time the school had embarked on a school wide program to include lower, intermediate and upper school participation. It was wonderful! From the pre-k march to the Yankee Doodle medley performed by middle school and of course not to forget the show choir's salute to the different branches of service.

There were plenty in attendance, mom's, dad's, grandparents, brothers/sisters, active duty and retired military from just about every branch and of course a contingency from our local military post. I am attaching a video clip of one of her songs. They sound really good, of course I could be a tad bit bias!